Seaborn Hodges (1816 - 1899 ) Volunteer in Seminole Indian War of the 1830's

"I served in the Okeefenokee Swamp in the War with the Seminole Indians.  My Regiment was know as General Charles Floyd's Brigade of Volunteers."   Seaborn Hodges

Seaborn Randolph Hodges c. 1865

Seaborn Hodges served in a company commanded by Capt. William C. Newborn, of General Floyd's Brigade of the Georgia Volunteers, in the vicinity of the Okefenokee Swamp, in 1837.  Service Records show that he enlisted at Trader's Hill and was stationed at Fort Henderson, one of the several forts around the perimeter of the swamp.  During Seaborn's service General Floyd lead his army through the swamp to run the Indians out.  According to Grandfather Seaborn's account they cut logs and made rafts which they pushed through the bogs and floated through the rivers of the great swamp, from Caney Creek Fort on the north to a fort on the south side, without seeing any Indians although they knew they were there.
Hodges furnished his own horse and for the services of both he received eleven dollars per month, and the promise of another horse if his be killed.  When mustered out, he could have a cash bounty of fifty dollars or a land warrant for 160 acres of land wherever government lands were available.  He did not draw the cash nor claim the land then, but the government granted 160 acres of land in Utah to his widow, in 1899 the year of his death.  A bound copy of the Congressional Record in possession of the author recorded that Betsy was granted a pension for his service. 

References:  Indian War Pension Application dated 1892, Georgia.  Ind. Sur App. #3879, Cert. #3054, Ind. Wid. App. #7812, Cert. #5560.